Holder for coat hangers



1960 N. B. A. EKSTRCYJM 2,947,423

HOLDER FOR COAT HANGERS Filed Nov. 21, 1958 INVENTOR /v. a. .4. slrsmu ATTORNEYS i United States Patent HOLDER FOR COAT HANGERS Nils Bengt Artur Ekstriim, Brahegatan 58, Jonkoping, Sweden Filed Nov. 21, 1958, Ser. No. 775,449

Claims priority, application Sweden Nov. 26, 1957 1 Claim. (Cl. 211-90) This invention relates to holders for coat hangers and especially to holders to be mounted in a restricted place such as in a wardrobe.

Coat hangers can be hung up along a horizontal rod or other holders with a distance between the hooks of the coat hangers, which is determined by combined thicknesses in the coat hangers and thickness in the cloth in articles of clothing hung up on the coat hangers. As a rule this should be the combined thicknesses of the coat hangers and article of clothing at the outer ends of the coat hangers, which determines how closely the coat hangers can be hung up on a horizontal rod and thus the length along the holders, which take up a certain number of coat hangers with clothes hung up on them.

The principal object of my invention is to provide an improved holder by' which said distance can be considerably reduced and by the use of which there can be hung up considerably more articles of clothing than has been possible up to now in a restricted place such as in a wardrobe in the use of horizontal holders. This holder may comprise of a rail, said rail having along its extension of length a number of hooks for coat hangers, of two such neighbouring hooks one being positioned obliquely above the other to allow coat hangers to be hung up next to each other above or below nearest hung coat hanger.

Another object of this invention is to provide a combined holder of this type with a support for a shelf in order to have a restricted place still better utilized.

In the accompanying drawing the preferred forms of the invention have been shown.

In said drawing:

[Figure 1 is a side view of a holder according to the invention.

Figure 2 is a front view of the holder.

Figure 3 is a side view of another construction of the holder.

Figure 4 is a partly side view of a holder with recesses for coat hangers disposed vertically in zigzag.

The holder shown in Figures 1 and 2 consists of a rod 1 arranged at an inclination of 45 to the vertical support 13, provided along its extent of length with a rail with hooks 2 for coat hangers at such a distance from each other that of coat hangers 3 hung up in two neighbouring hooks the downwards turned end surfaces 4 of the upper hanger are situated above a horizontal plane through the upwards turned surface parts 5 located above the corresponding downwards turned end surfaces of the lower coat hanger, see Figure 2. By this means an article of clothing 6 hung up on a lower coat hanger comes to lie with its upper parts against parts of the article of clothing hung up close to and on the higher placed coat hanger below the last named coat hanger, as is shown in detail in Figure 1, by means of which the articles of clothing can be hung considerably closer to each other.

As Figures 1 and 2 show the rod 1 forms part of a support having a horizontal beam 7 for a hat shelf or the like, the lower end of rod 1 being connected to the vertical support 13.

Figure 3 shows a modified construction where the rod 1 consists of a metal bar and the hooks are correspondingly suitable shaped recesses 8 disposed in the downward turned edge of the metal bar. Below the beam 7 the construction has a horizontal rod 12 secured at one end to the rod 1 and at the opposite end to vertical support 13 for empty coat hangers.

Figure 4 shows another construction where the rod 1 is disposed mainly horizontally with recesses disposed vertically in zigzag, whereby every other hook or recess 9 has a higher position than the recesses 10 situated therebetween.

What is claimed is:

In a combined shelf bracket and holder for coat hangers, a triangular assembly including a horizontal beam of suflicient width to constitute a shelf for supporting clothing articles, a rail having straight, upper and lower edges extending downwardly from said beam adjacent one end thereof at an angle of approximately 45 relative to a vertical plane with the lower end of said rail terminating in the same Vertical plane as the end of said beam, and a vertical support to which the lower end of the rail and the end of the beam are secured, said rail being of materially less width than the beam whereby the side edges of the beam project beyond the side edges of the rail, the lower edge of the rail having a plurality of recesses therein spaced along the length of said rail in such positions relative to each other that when coat hangers are located adjacent recesses, the downwardly turned ends of the upper hanger are positioned above a horizontal plane through the upwardly turned parts located above the corresponding downwardly turned ends of the lower hanger, and a horizontal rod below and closely adjacent said beam secured at one end of the vertical support and at the other end to the rail for supporting empty coat hangers.

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